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Marland Grand Home
The Marland Grand Home (also known as Marland's Grand Home, the Grand Home, and the Marland-Paris Home) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Marland's Grand Home Web Site retrieved May 26, 2021. The Grand Home is the first home built by Oklahoma Oilman E. W. Marland in Ponca City, Oklahoma and is considered a landmark in the community. The Grand Home was given its name because the home is on Grand Avenue in Ponca City, the community where Marland lived from 1908 until his death in 1941 and the city where he founded the Marland Oil Company (which later merged with and became Conoco) and where he built his Ponca City oil refinery, still in operation today more than 100 years later. Marland's Grand Home is a 1910s period mansion built in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The Grand Home is owned by the City of Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponca City, Oklahoma
Ponca City ( iow, Chína Uhánⁿdhe) is a city in Kay County in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The city was named after the Ponca tribe. Ponca City had a population of 25,387 at the time of the 2010 census- and a population of 24,424 in the 2020 census. History Ponca City was created in 1893 as "New Ponca" after the United States opened the Cherokee Outlet for European-American settlement during the Cherokee Strip land run, the largest land run in United States history. The site for Ponca City was selected for its proximity to the Arkansas River and the presence of a freshwater spring near the river. The city was laid out by Burton Barnes, who drew up the first survey of the city and sold certificates for the lots he had surveyed. After the drawing for lots in the city was completed, Barnes was elected the city's first mayor.Louis Seymour Barnes"The Founding of Ponca City" ''Chronicles of Oklahoma'' 35 (Summer 1957). Another city, Cross, vied with Ponca City to become the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
